PRO ANIMALS

WILL FOR LIFE

FOSTER HOME

RECOVERY AT HOME

A HOME FULL OF LIFE, BUT ALSO OF HARD WORK

The story began when we were living in a two room appartment in 1999, when we had ” only” 4 dogs. Our home offered love and care to tens of stray animals, a part remained with us for the rest fo their lives, a part were adopted and others were taken to the shelter waiting for someone to adopt them. Besides our permanent dogs, we also took in our home lots of dogs for recovering when being sick or after surgeries or neuterings, and also new puppies found wandering the streets. Knowing that we take care of poor dogs, it happened many times to find dogs or cats thrown in our courtyard or left in front of our home. Of course that we couldn’t leave them, so we received them inside and they became part of our familly.
As you can easily figure out, especially if you have at least one animal in your care, it is a huge work, demands lots of time, patience and efforts to have so many dogs and cats to handle in your home, not speaking about endless cleaning hours, cooking and feeding, repairing furtnitures after being chewed…..but no matter how hard it is, seeing their happy eyes, seeing them healthy and full of joy, showing in their own way the gratitude for our love and care, fill our heart with positive energy and pushes us to go ahead.

LET’S MEET OUR FOUR-LEGGED FAMILLY

OUR CATS

First is Mitza,whom we found wandering on a national road. We stopped the car and found two gorgeous and very hungry kittens who had probably been abandoned.Country people use to do awful things with the kittens, they put them in a sack and throw them in the water, they dump them in the forests etc etc to get rid of them. Luckly, we took these kittens at home, and found an owner for one of them. Next is Lina, that we found all alone in the center of the city, between the cars, very weak and skinny, so we took her and now she is a very nice cat. Last is Dixy, the male, who came on a cold night, right on the chimney and didn’t want to leave our house anymore.

Also, there is Julie,that someone left on a rainy night in front of our home and she started to cry as if saying : “Please, let me in!!” Although it was summer it was pretty cold, she was small and all wet. We took her in our home and she remained with us. There is also, El, that we found at the limit of a forest on a national road, so tinny you could hardly notice. He would have been killed by cars for sure, so we took him home with us. He was covered in thousands of fleas. Now, he is fat and goodlooking. Our first cat, Pisa, had just one month when we found her, all alone, crying in front of our block, frightened, hungry and full of fleas and parasites. We took her inside for a lunch and couldn’t let her go. In her ‘childhood” she used to play with our dogs, to beat them and she also had an adoptive mother, Dolly.

OUR DOGS

Patrick, Micky and Cara, are our first dog together with Tutza, who died at the age of 15 years old.

There came our first stray saved in 2000, Bella, who was a just a puppy, then there was Picky, who was a sick and weak puppy, and there is Max whom we found on a very cold night, in winter, being caught by a wire somewhere near our block and couldn’t move. He was screaming a lot so we went there and saved him. He didn’t eat for a long time , was very hungry and almost frozen.Now, he is happy but very jealouse on the other dogs and likes a lot the women and the parfums.

Nex is Betty, who has been thrown out of a car in front of the shelter, althought she was pregnant. She was extremely scared and with no trust in people. After neutering her we gave her for adoption , but she was brought back because ” she was very sad, didnt move and didnt want to play with the child“.We decided to offer her a home and it worth it. Tzica, Urata,

A gipsy brought Dolly to the shelter saying that he found her running loose in the cemetery nearby. We took her and we started to give announcements in the local press trying to find her owner, but had no luck. So, she remained with us and now she makes part of our Youth Education and Animal Assisted Therapy programme. Bubu was found on the street ,terrible skinny and with few hair left due to a skin disease, probably being abandoned by her owner. We took her home, treated her and soon she recovered, now being the chief at home.Alma was abandoned by her owner on the field near the shelter when she was just a puppy. Because outside was very cold, we found her frozen and almost dead. We took her home and made her many treatements and finally, being surrounded by love, she recovered. But, we realized that she was blind. At the begining she was following us everywhere, slept on the pillow with us and was crying when we let her alone. After several months, in which we did our her best for her and , the most important, offered her a lot of love and care, she started to see partially.

We found Mica in the city, running senseless and seemed so scared. She was so tinny and weak that we couldn’t leave her and took her home. She has her own way of speaking with us, is extremely sociable now and she loves to go with us almost every weekend at the Center for Old people, where we are running the “Soul to Soul” programme. We found Ghita when he was just a puppy. He had parvovirosis, so we took him home in order to take care of him in the night also. Soon after he recovered we realized that he has epilepsy, so we must give me daily his dose in order not to make seizures. But, besides this health problem, he is a very loving dog, has a blue eye, likes to eat and play. Pitty, as you can see was very skinny and sick, living in the courtyard of a hospital. We were feeding her daily, but we decided to take her home because otherwise she would have surely died. Soon, we found her mother dead, being poisoned. Now, Pitty, grew a lot , got weight is living home with us..

Bellow you can first see Gica and Nela, who were abandoned in front of our home and we couldn’t leave them there as they were very small and weak, so we took them inside and have been raising them. Next you can see Fulga whom we found at the begining of 2005, when it was extremely cold and she was just a puppy, wandering the streets, alone and sick. We didn’t think that she will recover from her illnes but again, we were thought that love and care make wonders. Nasuc was brought to us by an animal lover who found her when she was a puppy, in a town nearby and couldn’t leave her there as she was also sick and had no noise, just an infection. We took her in our home, treated her and now she is healthy, playful and goodlooking:)

A lady called us in the Easter evening in 2007 and told us that a dog was laying poisoned at her fence, struggling and in pains. We went there and took her at our home, finding no vet at that hour. We administrated her the first aid in poisoning cases and had to wait until morning. We named her Otravita. Luckly, she started to feel better and better until she recovered. Now, she is still living with us and she is a real sweety. Next is Wilma and you can read her story here

Eating time, playing in the garden and making wholes everywhere and sleeping finally.

OUR DOGS FROM ACROSS THE STREET

Across our home, we have a land where some years ago came a female – probably belonging to the gipsies living nearby who threw her away – and being pregnant gave birth to her puppies in the bushes. After a while we saw her there and we started to feed her and her puppies. Feeding them daily, soon there came also a male. We called them, Latila and Mama ( first photos bellow). When the puppies grew we neutered them also. They consider our land there home and never left.As around there live gipsies they leave their dogs with no food, and they come to our land where they see us feeding this familly. After a while, there came another resident, Negrila, who remained with us. We improvised them some cages. As our land wasn’t fenced, we had plenty of problems with the neighbors who were making complaints everywhere _ to Police , City Hall, Public Healthy etc – under the reason that they were disturbed by the dogs.We had to fence the area so that they don’t go in the neighborhood so now they live here.